Adobe Animate CC vs Hype 3.5

Spent some time playing with new Adobe Animate. It’s the same old Flash with the same Grant Skinner’s JS libraries, albeit hidden under the general UI. Since AS 3.0 doesn’t automatically compile to JS, full Flash functionality is not there. Its ability to generate canvas objects is sweet, and as a character or frame-by-frame animation package it is, of course, light years ahead of Hype, but nowhere close to the Toon Boom Harmony. Like Tumult, they target the high-end game and animation market rather then advanced interactivity. Pity, if this is all Adobe can achieve in more than 3 years.